Markham's master-piece : containing all knowledge belonging to the smith, farrier, or horse-leach, touching the curing all diseases in horses. Drawn with great pains and approved experience, and the publick practice of the best horse-marshals in Christendom. Divided into two books. The I. Containing cures physical: The II. All cures chyrurgical. Together with the nature, use, and quality of every simple mentioned through the whole work. Now the nineteenth time printed, corrected and augmented, with above thirty new chapters, and forty new medicines, heretofore never published. To which is added, the exactest receipts for curing all diseases, in oxen, cows, sheep, hogs, goats, dogs, and all small cattle. Also the Compleat jockey. Containing methods for the training horses up for racing, with their heats and courses, and manner of keeping, &c. Also, instructions to avoid being cheated by horse-coursers. To which is added in this nineteenth impression, directions to preserve all sorts of cattle from all manner of diseases, and to feed cattle fat, without corn, hay, or grass. Also the way to improve St-Foin. With divers other things never before made publick (1717)
Author: Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Subject: Horses; Horses; Horses -- Diseases Treatment; Veterinary medicine; Horses -- Training; Livestock; Horse racing -- England; Race horses -- Training
Publisher: London : Printed for N. and M. Boddington, at the Golden-Ball in Duck-Lane ; And G. Conyers, at the Golden-Ring in Little Britain ; and M. Wotton at the Cross Daggers in Fleet-Street.
Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
Language: English
Call number: 19097840
Digitizing sponsor: Tufts University
Book contributor: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Collection: websterfamilyvetmed; blc; americana
Notes: Pages 65-72 are mis-numbered and Pages 297-304 are mis-numbered
Scanfactors: 71
Full catalog record: MARCXML
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